HERMAN CASLER'S INVENTION
A Kinetograph Invented and Perfected By a former Fort Plainer—Superior to a Similar invention By Edison.
Herman Casler, formerly of Syracuse, but now connected with the Marvin Electric Drill company of this village, has invented and perfected a kinetograph similar to the instrument of that name invented by Edison, but having a much more rapid movement and making a picture about eight times as large. This instrument has the capacity of 80 exposures per second, but was run at the moderate rate of 50 per second, or 3 000 per minute, this noon at Mehan's shop by H J Dobson, an expert photographer from Syracuse The scene was a boxing match between Prof Al Leonard the boxing master, and Bert Hosley one of his pupils. The trial was a success in every particular. Mr Casler has also a kinetoscope in process of completion that will show the results of his kinetograph pictures in large form, and at the same time be as portable as any ordinary hand satchel. By this method the workings of intricate machines can be shown a prospective purchaser and thousands of other objects wherein motion is concerned, exhibited to a fineness. It is said a firm in New York city is negotiating for the inventions and the same will be soon placed on the market at prices within the reach of those desiring fine parlor entertainments. The trouble with the Edison device is said to be the expense of production and the cumbersome kinetoscope which can not be transported as rapidly as the Casler instrument.—[Yesterday's Canastota correspondent of Utica Press.
The inventor is well-known in Fort Plain, having resided here nearly all his life, up to the time of his locating in Syracuse. He has patents on several inventions and became quite famous over his invention of the photoret, a device about as large as a watch for making instantaneous pictures. His latest invention, it is claimed, will mark him as an inventor of the first rank as it outrivals the one recently perfected and invented by Thomas A. Edison.

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The Mohawk Valley Register, Fort Plain, vendredi 9 août 1895, p. 3.

A WONDERFUL MACHINE.
A Canastota Invention that beats Edison’s Greatest Effort.—A Successful Test.
THEE MACHINE INvented by Herman Casler, of Syracuse, now connected with the Marvin Electric Drill Company was given a trial at Mahan's machine shop at noon Monday. Mr Casler’s invention is upon similar lines as that of Edison’s kinetoscope, but having a much more rapid movement and making a picture seven and one-half times as large. The invention consists of two machines each totally unlike the other. One, the kinetoscope, is for taking the views which are afterwards presented in the other machine called the kinetograph. These are the names now used by the Edison people but the Casler machines when put on the market will be known as something else.
A platform was erected in the rear of the machine shop and Photographer H. J.Dobson, of Syracuse, soon arranged the kinetoscope for photographing two boxers, engaged in a sparring exhibition. The boxers were experts, Prof. Al. Leonard and his pupil, Bert Hosley. For more than one minute they went at each other in a scientific manner and both received several hard blows in the encounter. The kinetoscope clicked along at the rate of sixty exposures a second and at the end of one minute had taken 3,000 pictures as the encounter progressed. These views will be mounted on a long ribbon and when placed in the kintograph made by Mr.Casler will magnify many times and will reproduce the contest to anyone looking into the machine. The points of superiority in the new invention are that the kintograph [sic] is as portable as a hand satchel and the cost of its manufacture so low that it will come into popular use. It will be of incalculable value to agents who wish to show customers the actual workings of intricate machinery and will amplify the scope of instruction in technical schools. It will also be in demand for parlor amusements, the views being easily adjusted and may be purchased as stereopticon pictures are now obtained from supply houses. A stock company composed of New York capitalists has been organized to place it on the market.
Mr. Casler has also invented a camera that can be carried in the vest pocket which has produced perfect results and will be sold by the Magic Introduction Co.at $2 each. It has a capacity of fifty ribbon exposures and can be transformed into a camera with four plate exposures.

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Canastota Bee, Canastota, samedi 10 août 1895, p. 3.